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Re: Firefox 36.0 released

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Post by agumonkey » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 6:58 PM UTC

darkhorn wrote: post #103

agumonkey wrote: post #20

Meanwhile, in firefox 39a (current nightly), a reader view (readability/printfriendly) http://imgur.com/DONqb30

What OS is this? Or what user interface?

archlinux (you could have guessed from the page shown;), wmii as WM, no customizations whatsoever.

Re: Firefox 36.0 released

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Post by mcpoulet » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 7:00 PM UTC

_jomo wrote: post #132

Fix some unexpected logout from Facebook or Google after restart What sort of bug is this that only affects Facebook & Google?

Here is the corresponding bug on Bugzilla : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=950399 This what related to the way Facebook and Youtube sends cookies for all their subdomains, and not just www. (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=950399#c55).

Re: Firefox 36.0 released

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Post by agumonkey » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 7:01 PM UTC

Scarbutt wrote: post #135

shmerl wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Font rendering is as configured. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration

Yeah, I know you can make fonts look nice in linux, but distros ship with horrible defaults.

First, who do you think you are to question my font configuration skills (hint: nil), second, as mentioned earlier, there are ways to have 'better' font rendering. The thing is it requires a PhD in Linux display stack and frankly I don't care. I tried to care though, and it backfired at me (emacs was fubared, and that's a deal breaker), and this default config, even subpar, is pretty enough and stable enough. Lastly, chromium manages to set up itself better and fonts look better in it. SoFTWare.

Re: Firefox 36.0 released

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Post by IvyMike » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 7:02 PM UTC

_jomo wrote: post #132

Fix some unexpected logout from Facebook or Google after restart What sort of bug is this that only affects Facebook & Google?

Looks like it's probably this bug, which (to my reading) was a problem handling domain cookies:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=950399

This would of course affect any site, but the two common instances were FB and google.

Re: Firefox 36.0 released

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Post by spain » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 7:02 PM UTC

Scarbutt wrote: post #135

shmerl wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Font rendering is as configured. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration

Yeah, I know you can make fonts look nice in linux, but distros ship with horrible defaults.

>distros ship with horrible defaults.

I guess you haven't used Ubuntu lately, which ships with better fonts than my Windows machine.

Re: Firefox 36.0 released

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Post by steve-howard » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 7:02 PM UTC

hokkos wrote: post #136

The share and hello icons reappeared in FF 36 after I removed them, this is annoying.

I've had this problem with Readability before (the icons appeared by default to the left of the back button, which I didn't like; they kept reappearing). I want to say I solved it by going to about:support and resetting things.

Re: Firefox 36.0 released

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Post by agumonkey » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 7:03 PM UTC

vidyesh wrote: post #139

geppetto wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

About time! I've been using it a lot on FF mobile where it's super useful. This feature was announced long time ago. I've been using the Enjoy Reading extension for a while and found no good replacement when it was abandoned.

For desktop I use the Readability Bookmarklet[1]. Gets the job done. [1] https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets/

Personally I use a Firefox keyword shortcut to printfriendly (I don't remember why I stopped using readability, it's a lot fancier, but PF never failed so I kept going back to it.)

Re: Firefox 36.0 released

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Post by dragonwriter » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 7:05 PM UTC

spain wrote: post #145

Scarbutt wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I know you can make fonts look nice in linux, but distros ship with horrible defaults.

>distros ship with horrible defaults. I guess you haven't used Ubuntu lately, which ships with better fonts than my Windows machine.

Or, you know, people have different subjective preferences in fonts.

Re: Firefox 36.0 released

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Post by tedunangst » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 7:06 PM UTC

Scarbutt wrote: post #109

agumonkey wrote: post #20

Meanwhile, in firefox 39a (current nightly), a reader view (readability/printfriendly) http://imgur.com/DONqb30

I see font rendering in linux is still pretty horrible.

Perhaps you could be more specific?

Re: Firefox 36.0 released

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Post by Scarbutt » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 7:08 PM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #143

Scarbutt wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I know you can make fonts look nice in linux, but distros ship with horrible defaults.

First, who do you think you are to question my font configuration skills (hint: nil), second, as mentioned earlier, there are ways to have 'better' font rendering. The thing is it requires a PhD in Linux display stack and frankly I don't care. I tried to care though, and it backfired at me (emacs was fubared, and that's a deal breaker), and this default config, even subpar, is pretty enough and stable enough. Lastly,…

" The thing is it requires a PhD in Linux display stack "

agreed ;)